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The Volume is illustrated with Ten Coloured Engravings and a profusion of Woodcuts by the best artists and engravers. It forms a most suit able book for a Christmas or New Year's Present. Price 75. in cloth boards, 8s. 6d. handsome gilt, or ros. 6d. half bound in calf. LONDON: 56, PATERNOSTER ROW. THE PROPHETIC NEWS And Esrael's Watchman. EDITED BY REV. M. BAXTER. BY REV. J. A. SEISS, D.D., Pastor of the First Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, U.S. Three Separate Visions Defined-Human Dominion in its Broadest_View-The Solitary Ram_with_Two Horns-The Goat-The Ram Destroyed by It-The Springing Up of a "Little Horn"-The Infamous Career of Antiochus Epiphanes-Sets the Image of His own Idol on God's Altar-His Miserable End-The Fulness of the Prophecy still Awaits Fulfilment The Man of Sin," and the "Great Beast"-Who is the Final Antichrist P-The Spirit of the Times-A solemn Warning to the Church-The Study of Unfulfilled Prophecy. At the time of Daniel's second vision, as recorded in | account what is given by the Holy Spirit in separate chapter viii., and which occurred two years subsequent to the one he previously described, the armies of Cyrus were investing Babylon, and as Daniel was in Babylon when the city was captured, the probabilities are that it was there he had this vision. A glance at the particulars of the vision is enough to satisfy us that we have to do with some of the same powers brought to view in chapter viii., as well as in Nebuchadnezzar's dream. And if any should be disposed to think strange of this repeated travelling over the same ground, they need only recur to the existence of four Gospels, all devoted to the one subject of Christ's earthly life, or turn to the number of times Isaiah describes the Assyrian invasion, or note how repetitive are the prophecies touching the destruction of Babylon, Tyre, Egypt, Moab, and other cities, nations, and powers. But what, at first glance, we might be disposed to regard as mere repetitions are not such in reality. A return to the same subject, besides serving to emphasise that subject, nearly always develops some new circumstances, or puts it in some new light, attitude, or relation, or connects it with some special purpose, association, duty, threatening, or promise. And when the subject is a prophecy, there is always something connected with the repetition to adapt it to some altered position, end, or intent. For this reason I am always suspicious of what are called harmonies, or attempts to combine in one single accounts. People think to strengthen the record by these harmonies; but for the most part they only weaken and mar it. It is like taking a number of photographs of a thing from various points and distances, and then trying to make one picture out of them all by fitting together the several parts of each. It is an absurdity. God never meant it So, and man can never succeed in it. What we need is each picture by itself, from its own standpoint, and with its own individuality. And though we have THREE SEVERAL VISIONS covering the same general objects, and each of them deals in part with precisely the same things, it still is impossible to understand them rightly or to get a full impression of them without viewing each by itself entire, and apart from the weaving in of one with the other, as I find attempted by some. Nor is there any difficulty in accounting for the differences of these several visions. Nebuchadnezzar's dream gives a general outline of the political history of the world as viewed by a world-ruler and estimated from external presentations. Hence the splendid human figure, by the side of which the kingdom of God appears in humility as "a stone." Daniel's first vision gives a somewhat more particular outline of the same world-power, but as viewed by a spiritual prophet, and estimated with reference to moral properties. Hence ferocious wild beasts take the place of excellent metals, whilst |